Archive for June, 2008

Monday, June 30th, 2008

Absolute and Relative

When coding your web pages there are two ways to specify the address of other files that you want the page to reference. You can use absolute addresses that include the domain name or relative addresses that don’t. Obviously external references need to use absolute addresses but internal ones are better done using relative references. [...]

Sunday, June 29th, 2008

Dynamic Watermarking

Let’s finish a week of looking at my PHP scripts by looking at my latest freebie. This PHP script allows you to upload all of your images to your web site without any visible watermarks and have the images display on the site with a visible watermark in each image. The one disadvantage of using [...]

Saturday, June 28th, 2008

Link Counter

After looking at the scripts I sell over the past few days it is now time to look at one that I just give away. The Link Counter script serves two purposes.

It conceals the actual page that a given link actually links to by having the link call the script which then calls the actual [...]

Friday, June 27th, 2008

Password Protected Area

More of a toolkit than a complete solution, this script provides the basic functionality to add the requirement that people have an account and login before being able to access web pages. The basic login, logout, lost password, change password, and join pages are all supplied and can be easily customised to match your site. [...]

Thursday, June 26th, 2008

GuestMap

Another script that is a bit difference. The scdript provides a very basic guestbook without much in the way of fancy features but overlaid on top of it is a guestmap facility where a map of the world is displayed allowing your visitors to make their mark on the map along with adding their comment [...]

Wednesday, June 25th, 2008

Paypal IPN

A Paypal IPN script is one that hooks into the back end of the Paypal payment process allowing you to run code when Paypal confirms that you have received a payment for a given product.
Where my script differs from all the other IPN script I have seen is that my script does not need a [...]

Tuesday, June 24th, 2008

Site Search Script

The PHP version of my site search script is two scripts in one because both a flat file and mySQL database versions are included along with a module to allow you to transfer easily from one to the other. The actual search facility searches the meta description and keyword tags from your pages which can [...]

Monday, June 23rd, 2008

Form2Mail

I have written not one but two form2mail scripts. The simpler of the two allows you to collect as many different fields as you require and sticks them in the email as separate lines specifying the field name and the value entered. It also caters for the sender adding a message under the list of [...]

Sunday, June 22nd, 2008

Electronic Products and Theft

Since I started selling PHP scripts from my site I have had three copies of one or other of my scripts stolen. I know this because right from when I first started selling the scripts I have had code in place to at least track when a copy of one of the scripts I have [...]

Saturday, June 21st, 2008

Some HTTP Codes

here are lots of different error codes defined to cover the various possible problems hat can occur with displaying web pages in a web browser. Some of these occur fairly often (such as page not found) while there are others you will probably never see. Web sites may have a custom page defined to display [...]

Friday, June 20th, 2008

Your Software Toolbox

If your job may involve helping others to get their computer working properly again or if you just want to make sure that you can fix your own computer if it has problems then you will need a number of utility programs available that you can use o attempt o fix a computer setup when [...]

Thursday, June 19th, 2008

Replacing Text in a Graphic

When you have an image that contains text, the text may or may not be all that readable – especially if you have resized the image from its original size. Provided that he text doesn’t overlap anything too complex in the image you should be able to remove hat current text and replace it with [...]